Robert Bork
Robert Bork
Robert Heron Borkwas an American legal scholar who advocated the judicial philosophy of originalism. Bork served as a Yale Law School professor, Solicitor General, Acting Attorney General, and a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth1 March 1927
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
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How did Taney know that slave ownership was a constitutional right? Such a right is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. He knew it because he was passionately convinced that it must be a constitutional right.
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This begins to demystify the presidency, and I'm not sure that's all bad.
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a constitutional right . . . and once homosexuality is defined as a constitutional right, there is nothing the states can do about it, nothing the people can do about it.
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attest to the vital importance of candor and confidentiality in the solicitor general's decision-making process.
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It's a little late to develop a constitutional philosophy or begin to work it out when you're on the court already,
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the most prominent and intellectually powerful advocate of judicial restraint.
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Without adherence to the original understanding, even the actual Bill of Rights could be pared or eliminated. It is asserted nonetheless, and sometimes on high authority, that the judicial philosophy of original understanding is fatally defective in any number of respects.
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The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
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Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement, and it is meeting with considerable success. Totalitarian in spirit, it is deeply antagonistic to traditional Western culture and proposes the complete restructuring of society, morality, and human nature.
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A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
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There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area.
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No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.
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The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career.
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Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.